Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 Cooling of alkali atoms towards BEC Particles or Waves? Both! Light is often described as waves, but it can also be described as a stream of light particles, photons. Matter is also characterised by this dualism. In the 1920s, Louis de Broglie suggested…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 The Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose had made some statistical calculations concerning light particles, photons. He sent his results to Albert Einstein, who translated them and made sure they were published. He also extended the theory to include material particles. The air between you…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 Left: Ketterle’s first atom laser. Centre and right: later results from other laboratories. The atomic laser When the laser was invented some forty years ago, no-one envisaged its many areas of application today. A laser emits coherent light; could coherent matter be utilised…
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Award ceremony speech
Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Joseph Nordgren, ledamot av ; ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, 10 December 2009 Professor Joseph Nordgren presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar. Årets Nobelpristagare i fysik belönas för arbeten som på ett avgörande sätt har påverkat både vårt…
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Press release
Swedish 6 oktober 2009 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2009 med ena hälften till Charles K. KaoStandard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, Storbritannien och Chinese University of Hong Kong “för banbrytande insatser angående ljustransmission i fibrer för optisk kommunikation” och med den andra hälften gemensamt till Willard S. Boyle och George E. SmithBell Laboratories, Murray Hill,…
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Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
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